“If Atheism writes upon the blackboard of the Universe a question mark, it writes it for the purpose of stating that there is a question yet to be answered. Is it not better to place a question mark upon a problem while seeking an answer than to put the label "God" there and consider the matter solved? Does not the word "God" only confuse and make more difficult the solution by assuming a conclusion that is utterly groundless and palpably absurd?”
The Philosophy of Atheism
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A comment on Wrong Questions http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/ (March 2008)
Context: Mystery exists in the mind, not in reality. If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is a fact about my state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon itself. All the more so, if it seems like no possible answer can exist: Confusion exists in the map, not in the territory. Unanswerable questions do not mark places where magic enters the universe. They mark places where your mind runs skew to reality.
“All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 8, Unity, p. 49.

47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk

“In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

As quoted in: Ṭhānissaro (Bhikkhu.) (2004) Handful of leaves. Vol. 3, p. 80